Plang - 11/18/2008 8:12 AM
The two incidents are completely unrelated. The first was a lady with a medical condition. The second was an example of stupidity.
I hate to be harsh but look at the facts: Impromptu dive at 1:30 in the morning was their first mistake. Second, there were four members of the team and three members of the team left one member of their party by himself. Third mistake was two of the three remaining members took off to try to find the missing member thus leaving another diver by himself. They were lucky there was not a second diver missing or dead.
The member who died was know to pull pranks according to one member so I don’t support the idea he took diving seriously.
As sad as it is this incident should be used by every dive instructor to teach how stupidity can get you killed.